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Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism by Leslie Heywood 9780816630059
RRP: $28.37$25.63In this work, young feminists born between the years 1964 and 1973, discuss the things that they consider matter now - both in looking at the accomplishments and failures of the past, and in planning for the future.Book InformationISBN... -
Industrial Ruination, Community and Place: Landscapes and Legacies of Urban Decline by Alice Mah 9781442613577
RRP: $36.11$32.19Abandoned factories, shipyards, warehouses, and refineries are features of many industrialized cities around the world. But despite their state of decline, these derelict sites remain vitally connected with the urban landscapes that surround them. In... -
Life After COVID-19: The Other Side of Crisis by Miki Kashtan
RRP: $12.89$10.31What might the world look like in the aftermath of COVID-19? Almost every aspect of society will change after the pandemic, but if we learn lessons then life can be better. Featuring expert authors from across academia and civil society, this book... -
The Psychology of Covid-19: Building Resilience for Future Pandemics by Joel Vos
RRP: $63.20$55.34The Psychology of Covid-19 explores how the coronavirus is giving rise to a new order in our personal lives, societies and politics. Rooted in systematic research on Covid-19 and previous pandemics, including SARS, Ebola, HIV and the Spanish Flu, this... -
Unfolding the Past by Elizabeth Wilson
RRP: $32.25$23.85"Fascinating." Perspective "A fascinating, often funny, and eminently stylish personal memoir ... I loved it." - Chris Breward, author of The Suit "Wide-ranging, thought-provoking and important." - Claire Wilcox, author of Patch Work Elizabeth... -
Transformations of Circe: THE HISTORY OF AN ENCHANTRESS by Judith Yarnall
RRP: $30.95$27.01Beginning with a detailed study of Homer's balance of negative and positive elements in the Circe-Odysseus myth, Judith Yarnall employs text and illustrations to demonstrate how Homer's Circe is connected with age-old traditions of goddess worship. She... -
The Emergence of Footballing Cultures: Manchester, 1840-1919 by Gary James 9781526148001
RRP: $32.25$28.11This study of Manchester football, by leading football historian Gary James, considers the sport's emergence, development and establishment through to its position as the city's leading team sport. The period from 1840 to 1919 saw football in Manchester... -
Unthinking Social Science: Limits Of 19Th Century Paradigms by Immanuel Wallerstein
RRP: $30.95$26.33In this new edition of a classic work -- now with a new preface -- on the roots of social scientific thinking, Immanuel Wallerstein develops a thorough-going critique of the legacy of nineteenth-century social science for social thought in the new... -
Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry by Adrian Goldsworthy 9781541619968
RRP: $45.15$28.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541619968Author Adrian GoldsworthyFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 903gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 155mm *... -
Walking Methodologies in a More-than-human World: WalkingLab by Stephanie Springgay 9780367264956
RRP: $61.91$53.93As a research methodology, walking has a diverse and extensive history in the social sciences and humanities, underscoring its value for conducting research that is situated, relational, and material. Building on the importance of place, sensory inquiry,... -
Food & Freedom: How the Slow Food Movement Is Changing the World by Carlo Petrini 9780847846856
RRP: $21.87$15.82Inspiring the global fight to revolutionize the way food is grown, distributed, and eaten. In the almost thirty years since Carlo Petrini began the Slow Food organization, he has been constantly engaged in the fight for food justice. Beginning first in... -
Assessing the Human-animal Bond: A Compendium of Actual Measures by David C. Anderson
RRP: $43.80$32.61This book gathers, in one place, those measures presently used to study the human-companion animal bond. The measures chosen for inclusion are the most heavily used by researchers, as well as measures that appear to be innovative or relate to the... -
Philosophy of Social Science by Alexander Rosenberg
RRP: $56.75$49.59Philosophy of Social Science provides a tightly argued yet accessible introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences, including economics, anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology, history, and the disciplines emerging... -
Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year by Linda LeGarde Grover
RRP: $16.76$14.60Long before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, "the place of the small portage." There the Ojibwe lived in keeping with the seasons, moving among different camps for... -
An Introduction to Criminal Psychology by Russil Durrant
RRP: $61.91$54.45This book offers a clear, up-to-date, comprehensive, and theoretically informed introduction to criminal psychology, exploring how psychological explanations and approaches can be integrated with other perspectives drawn from evolutionary biology,... -
Deviance and Liberty: Social Problems and Public Policy by Lee Rainwater
RRP: $59.33$52.28Deviance is by definition a social problem. Since deviant behavior violates the normative expectations of a given group, deviance must be regarded as a problem for that group, since all groups of people want their norms to be enforced. Many modern... -
How Chiefs Come to Power: The Political Economy in Prehistory by Timothy K. Earle
RRP: $139.32$118.46By studying chiefdoms-kin-based societies in which a person's place in a kinship system determines his or her social status and political position-this book addresses several fundamental questions concerning the nature of political power and the... -
The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties, with "The Resumption of History in the New Century" by Daniel Bell 9780674004269
$44.44Named by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the 100 most influential books since the end of World War II, The End of Ideology has been a landmark in American social thought, regarded as a classic since its first publication in 1962. Daniel Bell... -
Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking by Arpad Szakolczai
RRP: $49.01$43.06The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative study of the language and cultures of walking. It then reviews in detail, relying on archaeology, two turning points of human history:... -
The Revolt of the Black Athlete: 50th Anniversary Edition by Harry Edwards 9780252041075
RRP: $33.53$26.87The Revolt of the Black Athlete hit sport and society like an Ali combination. This Fiftieth Anniversary edition of Harry Edwards's classic of activist scholarship arrives even as a new generation engages with the issues he explored. Edwards's new... -
Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomble by Yvonne Daniel
RRP: $28.37$24.76Landmark interdisciplinary study of religious systems through their dance performancesReviewsWinner of the de la Torre Bueno Prize (2006). "[Daniel] advances dance anthropology through ambitious meticulous scholarship, acute comparative analyses,... -
Perspectives in Sociology by E. C. Cuff 9781138793545
RRP: $56.75$50.10From its first edition in 1979, Perspectives in Sociology has provided generations of undergraduates with a clear, reassuring introduction to the complications of sociological theory. This revised and updated edition features:a completely rewritten... -
The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts by Jeff Goodwin
RRP: $37.35$32.86Providing a unique blend of cases, concepts, and essential readings The Social Movements Reader, Third Edition, delivers key classic and contemporary articles and book selections from around the world. Includes the latest research on contemporary... -
A Watched Pot: How We Experience Time by Michael G. Flaherty 9780814726860
RRP: $29.66$25.28Time, it has been said, is the enemy. In an era of harried lives, time seems increasingly precious as hours and days telescope and our lives often seem to be flitting past. And yet, at other times, the minutes drag on, each tick of the clock... -
The Philosophy of Social Evolution by Jonathan Birch
RRP: $31.59$28.51From mitochondria to meerkats, the natural world is full of spectacular examples of social behaviour. In the early 1960s Bill Hamilton changed the way we think about how such behaviour evolves. He introduced three key innovations - now known as... -
Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge Into Action by Robert M. Wulff 9780367163631
RRP: $49.01$40.22This book is a collection of original case studies describing anthropological knowledge successfully translated into action. It describes the targeted problem or issue, his or her role as an anthropologist, the specific anthropological skills or... -
The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader by Kuan-Hsing Chen
RRP: $58.04$51.96Asian Cultural Studies or Cultural Studies in Asia is a new and burgeoning field, and the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal is at its cutting edge. Committed to bringing Asian Cultural Studies scholarship to the international English speaking world and... -
Peddlers and Princes: Social Development and Economic Change in Two Indonesian Towns by Clifford Geertz
RRP: $29.67$28.55In a closely observed study of two Indonesian towns, Clifford Geertz analyzes the process of economic change in terms of people and behavior patterns rather than income and production. One of the rare empirical studies of the earliest stages of the... -
Heritage Revitalisation for Tourism in Hong Kong: The Role of Interpretive Planning by Chris White
RRP: $25.79$22.82Heritage tourism is a global multi-million-dollar phenomenon, influencing national, regional and local cultural identities. Hong Kong finds itself at the confluence of several post-colonial economic, political and social developments and with this comes... -
Why Do People Sing?: On Voice by Paddy Scannell 9781509529438
RRP: $19.34$6.37In Why Do People Sing? Paddy Scannell explores some of the mysteries at the heart of vocal communication. What explains the communicative musicality of the voices between parent and child as a baby learns to talk? Can readers of fiction hear the voices... -
Social Media Freaks: Digital Identity in the Network Society by Dustin Kidd
RRP: $49.01$43.06Social media has been transforming American and global cultural life for over a decade. It has flattened the divide between producer and audience found in other forms of culture while also enriching some massive corporations. At the core of Social Media... -
Critical Theories and the Budapest School: Politics, Culture, Modernity by John Rundell 9780367332969
RRP: $51.59$45.23Critical Theories and the Budapest School brings together new perspectives on the Budapest School in the context of contemporary developments in critical theory. Engaging with the work of the prominent group of figures associated with Georg Lukacs, this... -
Causal Models in the Social Sciences by Hubert M. Blalock
RRP: $60.62$53.37Causal models are formal theories stating the relationships between precisely defined variables, and have become an indispensable tool of the social scientist. This collection of articles is a course book on the causal modeling approach to theory... -
Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples by Jack D. Forbes
RRP: $29.66$25.28Jack D. Forbes's monumental Africans and Native Americans has become a canonical text in the study of relations between the two groups. Forbes explores key issues relating to the evolution of racial terminology and European colonialists' perceptions of... -
Virtuous Leadership by Alexandre Havard 9781594172045
RRP: $25.74$15.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594172045Author Alexandre HavardFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Scepter PublishersPublisher Scepter PublishersWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)... -
Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology by Michelle M. Wright
RRP: $30.95$26.33What does it mean to be Black? If Blackness is not biological in origin but socially and discursively constructed, does the meaning of Blackness change over time and space? In Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology, Michelle M... -
J.M. Robertson: Rationalist and Literary Critic by Odin Dekkers
RRP: $42.56$37.62Published in 1998, J. M. Robertson: Rationalist and Literary Critic is a study of the life of one of the most erudite and prolific critics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Scotsman John MacKinnon Robertson (1856-1933),... -
Facebook by Taina Bucher
RRP: $20.63$19.10Facebook has fundamentally changed how the world connects. No other company has played a greater role in the history of social networking online. Yet Facebook is no longer simply a social networking site or social media platform. Facebook is Facebook... -
Are Filter Bubbles Real? by Axel Bruns 9781509536450
RRP: $19.34$14.40There has been much concern over the impact of partisan echo chambers and filter bubbles on public debate. Is this concern justified, or is it distracting us from more serious issues? Axel Bruns argues that the influence of echo chambers and filter... -
Negritude Women by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting 9780816636808
RRP: $28.37$24.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816636808Author T. Denean Sharpley-WhitingFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota...